The Dickinson press., 1887-05-21

The following appointments have
been made in the general land Office:
Ge,. X. Bradford, of Louisiana. ard
Richard G. WinterSmith, fraudulent
land entry agents; John Mason, of
Virginia, and Arthur Grahourke, of
Georgia, timber depreciation agents.
Swan Bros, the we'll known c.ttlc
men, made II general assignment for
the benefit of all Observation-Disclosures,
$l,lOo.noO; assets nominally about the
same. The cause of the failure is the
slrinliage during the last few wears.
They claim that if given time they
a pay in full.
The stocks and bonds of the Duluth
4 Iron Range Railroad company. to-
grtlcr with the title to 100000 acres
of land in Minnesota, will he turned
over ON June 5th to syndicate conn
posed of Gen. III. III. Porter. of the
Pullman Car company: j. &. Morse.
"f the tnion Steel company. Chicago:
ID. q. Mills of New York; j. ID. Rorka-
Teller. nj the Standard Oil company,
and others for S5.U0m.uOO.
The foreclosure sale of Nickle Plate
road Thursday WAS a very formal af-
fair. II WAS purchased ON the first
bid for %Sl6,ouo.ooo hy Frederick p.
Olrott. chairman OF the Nicklc Plate
purchasing committee. for the bond
holders committee. which is made up
of MIR. Olcott. VIM. Il. Vanderbilt.
james n. Rooscval. and John Krnne-
dy. 1T is stated on good authority
that the sale of the road will not re-
suit in amy changes in its management.
and that Receiver Caldwell will he
made president of the road.
The financial secretary of India adj
vised the English government of the
discovery of an immense amount of
treasure, estimated ut ovc S225. 1000
which had been secreted in the palace
OF Gnalior by the late maharaiah. The
treasure has been sunk in pits under
the vaults beneath the Zcnara. The
secret WAS entrusted to IL few conf
dental servants. The secretary was
present when the treasure was I'M
earthed. After removing the earth
to Il depth of six feet the wurklnen
uncovered great tlagstoncs. Beneath
these several pals filled to the hrim,
chiefly with silver, freshly coined ru-
pceS, were found.
\ Marquette, Mich, dispatch says
word received from camp 8 OH tie
Summit division of the Dulutll. South
Shore 4 Atlantic extension that the
camp is surrounded by fire. General
Grolct. timber contractor and eight
mel escaped through Il mile OF fire
and smoke, leaving 800 Italians in
camp fighting for their lives. Every
available dish, including cooking utcn-
silS is i'll use. and the only water
available is from IL we'll and Il small
creek some distance away. An at.
tempt WAS made to remove the sick
men of the party, but it failed. When
Grolet and his party We're IL short dis
lance away they heard great shouting
and SAN big flames and believe the
camp was burning. Ii so, it is feared
that there will I've Il great loss of life
among the panic-strikrn Italians.
The forest fires are still raging and
miles of timber being burned.
The Queen Victoria pageant i'm
opening the peoples palace in Govern
ment End. London. Saturday, was IL
magnificent affair. The queen reached
Paddington station from Windsor at
4 y. N. The lord mayor and munici-
pal officers of the city OF London went
in carriages from the Mansion house
to the city S boundry line, IIolborn
allghte'l and awaited the queen who
WAS in an open carriage. At the
queens approach the lord mayor re-
celytu Il pearl sword from the sword
bearer. His worship lowered the
point, congratulated her majesty on
coming to Il most loyal city and pre-
sented the sword to the queen. She
took it and returned it to the lord
mayor and the retinue then placing
themselves Immediately in advance
of the queens carriage. escorted her
across the city TO the eastern boulla-
ry, Aldgate.